Plumbers at Justice

AUTHOR(S)

Lewin, Nathan

PUB. DATE

September 1973

SOURCE

New Republic;9/8/73 Supplement, Vol. 169 Issue 9, p21

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the charges made by U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew about his involvement in the Watergate scandal and the leakage of details of the investigation before the grand jury hears them. View that Agnew is trying to influence the outcome of possible grand jury deliberations; Announcement of the attorney general on the presidential directive for a special leak-investigating squads of lawyers and Federal Bureau of Investigation men; Claim of Agnew that he is being unfairly convicted in the press; Role of the grand jury in the proceedings; Attenuation of the allusion to grand jury secrecy.

ACCESSION #

10156585

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